Does Audition MIDI actually work for anyone?

Question

Hi -
This is a serious post and not an ad-hoc gripe.
I have just started to use Audition MID and it simply does not work! I have today read many of the posts of this forum and can identify other similar problems - for example - MIDI note off messages not being recorded re-transmitted to synths.
I would suggest that those with continuing problems post here in summary to give a community 'feel' for Audition with regard to MIDI for the benefit of users and developers alike.
As a former Sun Microsystems Test-lead engineer, here is imy appraisal of Adobe Audition MIDI capabilities:
1. It simply does not work. It appears that the Audition Design/Development team designed from a too simplistic stand point. It appears that the functionality was not thought through; and it most certainly looks like the MIDI features were NOT adequately tested in real-world scenarios; especially regarding connectivity with MIDI hardware.
2. The documentation is too sparse and does not sufficiently explain the features and their usage.
Audition as an audio editor is simply Awesome - there's almost nothing else like it IMO; but the MIDI design and testing team(s) have let this application down dreadfully. Senior designer /managers in Adobe - if you read this - you need to talk to your Adobe MIDI Developer and Test Leads and let them know they are destroying the reputation of Adobe and Audition.
Again I ask - does Audition MIDI Tracks work; and are people successfully integrating standard plugins into MIDI in Adobe multitrack sessions with acceptable realtime usage? I suggest we compile our expericen here to give a clear picture to Adobe - they clearly have not tested this functionality.
My experiences have been:
- It takes forever to initiate MIDI tracks
- Scaning for VSTi's crashes Audition - every time
- MIDI note-off messages regurlarly not sent to external hardware synths
- Minimal documentation on how to record from and play back external hardware synthesizers; on monitoring them when playing and on recording multiple MIDI tracks at once or on setting up connectivity to severla external hardware synths (among many other documentation short comings).
These are all issues that were sorted even by the likes of Atari 20 years ago. All of this functionaloty should completely work - it is bread and butter functionality.
Kevin Nolan.

Answer 1

I was going to start my own thread, but this one will do.
I recently launched myself into MIDI, and here are my results with Audition 3:
* It works so far.
* I've got a MIDI keyboard controller (M-Audio Axiom Pro 49) and I can record stuff in Audition so far.
* I've loaded various VSTi plugs into Audition via the VSTi Plugin Manager, and they work.  (One's a Native Instruments demo called Absynth, and I've got about five FL Studio softsynth plugins working.)
I'm running Audition 3.01 on a Win 7/64-bit dual core system, and I've got the MIDI keyboard connected via USB 2.
All that's good (and completely different from your experience, I'm afraid).  However, I'm going to try out out using the Axiom controller as a controller soon, and I'll report back here.  One person has suggested to me that using USB with a keyboard and Audition yields poor results for anything other than recording.  I'd be interested to know if anybody here has had different results using either a USB connection or a standard MIDI cable connection.